unglamorous
英 [ʌnˈɡlæmərəs]
美 [ʌnˈɡlæmərəs]
adj. 无魅力的; 不刺激的; 枯燥的
BNC.33308 / COCA.25480
牛津词典
adj.
- 无魅力的；不刺激的；枯燥的
not attractive or exciting; dull- an unglamorous job
乏味的工作
- an unglamorous job
英英释义
adj
- not challenging
- an unglamorous job greasing engines
双语例句
- Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair.
午餐绝非令人想望的事情。 - Profit-starved hedge fund managers, best known as masters of the financial universe, are turning to an unlikely place for their next windfall: the unglamorous world of long-only asset management.
享有金融世界主宰者之称的对冲基金经理人因苦于无法获得利润，纷纷转向一个人们意料之外的领域寻找发大财的机会：貌似平淡无奇的单边做多资产管理领域。 - But there are some good guys in the microbial world& bugs that do the unglamorous work of keeping us regular and helping to relieve a range of disorders from diarrhea to irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS).
实际上在微生物界中有一些好虫子的，它们做着枯燥无聊的工作来维持我们的身体正常运转，还能预防从腹泻到肠道紊乱综合症的病症。 - But the government is still too fond of its grandiose projects and too slow to get unglamorous things right.
但政府还是太热衷于它的宏伟事业，纠正那些错误的事情的速度太过缓慢。 - The unglamorous sibling of the gondola; these no-frills boats get passengers from one side of the canal to the other for a meagre fee.
这些无装饰的船只将乘客从运河的一边送到另一边，只收取很少的费用。 - Mango is aiming at an unglamorous market, the unbanked.
芒果金融定位于一个单调的市场，即无银行账号的人。 - For their roles in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Burton and Taylor for the first time in their careers dared to appear as unglamorous, disheveled and overweight characters.
在《谁害怕沃基尼娅·伍尔夫》一片中，泰勒和伯顿首次饰演外形不好看又发福的角色。 - But fundamentally, it performs an unglamorous function in a utilitarian way.
但是基本上，它还是功利性地扮演一个没有趣味的功能角色。 - The enterprise side is much less visible and frankly a little unglamorous, but just as important as the consumer side.
相比之下，企业软件市场没有如此引人注目，坦率地说甚至有点乏善可陈，但仍然和消费科技领域同等重要。 - The result: the new investor class is losing its appetite for risk and is parking its cash in unglamorous, low-yielding money-market funds and bank savings accounts.
结果，新的投资群体逐渐丧失了风险投资欲，把资金转向了毫无吸引力、收益率低的货币市场基金和银行储蓄。